Answered Slider

Hello,

I am new to modX and this forum, and I hope that you can help me with something that might seem pretty basic for most of you.

I am building a site that contains a content slider on the homepage, and I managed to set this up so far. I don't know how I can enable the user to add more "slider elements" while he is updating the content? Like an "add slider" button, where the same chunk I created (containing headline, subheadline, 2 small images and regular text) is added below. Then the user can update the second slider, and if necessary, add more sliders (chunks).

How can I do this? Please help!

Thank you in advance!
Belinda

It's much better to give the editor a form with fields for each element of the slider item.

This can be done in several ways, depending on exactly what the slider is.

I prefer to use a dedicated resource with its own template, and a MIGx TV. You can modify the dedicated resource with form customization to only display the TV grid. The resource itself is never shown on the site; it just acts as a convenient container for the slider TV.

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/MIGX
https://www.markhamstra.com/modx-blog/2012/04/managing-galleries-with-migx/
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Form+Customization+Sets

That is indeed another perfectly good way to do it. This is MODx; there are always several ways to accomplish something. I just happen to be very fond of MIGx.

I wanted to use MIGx at first, but just didn't "get" into it, so I looked for something similar. I will definitely look into MIGx too.

MIGx is definitely one of the greatest add-ons for MODx and well worth taking the time to learn the JSON to implement it.

You can modify the dedicated resource with form customization to only display the TV grid

Never would have thought of isolating a Resource like that. Learn something new every time I read your posts Susan